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"Weidmann vous apparut dans une édition de cinq heures, la tête emmaillotée de bandelettes blanches, religieuse et encore aviateur blessé, tombé dans les seigles, un jour de septembre pareil à

« Les nuits où je ne dormais pas, j’ouvrais le velux et je m’installais sur le toit, j’étais le seul dans la cité à jouir de ce privilège, passer la nuit à la belle étoile, dans le plus grand secre

Ce n'est pas la montagne que l'on conquiert, mais soi-même.

Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works. Meanwhile a cohort of interested parties circle.

This “fascinating autobiography” from an award-winning Asian-American female author “reads like a novel” (The Washington Post Book World).

“A pleasant, chatty book on a fascinating subject.” —Kirkus Reviews. Octopuses have been captivating humans for as long as we have been catching them.

The acclaimed, bestselling rock-and-roll biographer delivers the first complete, unexpurgated history of the world’s greatest band.

A sweeping epic by Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andrić about power, identity, and Islam set in 19th-century Ottoman Bosnia and Istanbul.

On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House is Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s evocative, moving, often fantastic, short novel about one man’s conflict with himself and his journey toward resolution.

On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency—wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called “Doctor” for the first time.

National Book Award winner: This story of a family torn apart by the Vietnam era is “a magnificent portrayal of two noble men who broke each other’s hearts” (Booklist).

I try to see him among a migrating flock—he will take the loneliness of my room on his long journey; each whistling note he makes will be a little of my sadness falling over the ocean, to be swallo

Celia Sánchez is the missing actor of the Cuban Revolution.

Today, in violence-torn regions across the globe, 20 million children have been uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and poverty. This is their story . . . and ours.

Lesbian storyteller Ivan E.